Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South WANT A SEPARATE STATE For the United States government to attempt to maintain a state for the exclusive occupancy of colored persons is to our mind the height of folly, the advocacy of the same by notable colored men and women to the contrary notwithstanding. The scheme as has been presented to Congress is for this government to purchase a stretch of territory some 500 miles square from the Mexican government and set it up as one of the states of this union, but peopled with the present colored population of the various states. Such an undertaking would be a failure before it ever begun. The colored people themselves would refuse to migrate thither because they would realize the extreme privations that would result therefrom. If on the other hand a sufficient number would go to guarantee success then it would be but a short time before they would clammor either for independence or be badly divided in opinion as to whether the state would remain a part of the U. S. A., or annex itself to Mexico, all of which would bring about endless trouble. Finally by what constitutional right could the government officials prevent white folks from emigrating to that state the same as black folks? And if the white folks were prevented from living in that state would not a like effort be made to prevent colored folks from living in the other states of the Union, in the most of which the colored folks now own millions of dollars worth of property? Woud the government pay them for their property and business? And if it did so, what would prevent such colored folks from going to any country they might have the inclination to emigrate? A long story short the whole scheme is nothing short of a fairy tale the imagination of a disordered mind. To our mind the colored man of this country is here to stay just as long as does the white man, the troubles and misunderstandings of the two to the contrary notwithstanding. When the colored man fully accepts the white man's civilization, he will then be fully prepared to be initiated into full citizenship and when initiated the spirit of do unto others as you would have them do to you will force the white man to accept him as a full fledged citizen. Time is a great healer of all differences and it is making herculean efforts to heal the differences between the white and colored citizens of this country. The colored man's life of this country is so interwoven with that of the white man's that it would require the intervention of the Creator of both to separate them. Six millions of the twelve million colored folks of this country are as much white as they are black and many of them have no desire to be driven off to a separate state. Even the Indians objected to such a procedure and it has taken a standing army to keep them on the reservations set apart for them. Damphooldom can be applied to the unAmerican scheme. ... COLORED BISHOPS AGAIN Bishop Thirkiel favors the election of colored bishops in the Methodist Episcopal Church and we quite agree with him. If however it is his idea to elect colored bishops to preside over colored conferences exclusively then we differ on the subject as widely as is the East from the West. If one thinks there is a heaven for white folks and a different heaven for black folks then such a proscription would be right and proper, but if all are going to the same heaven then such a proscription should not be tolerated. Why should colored bishops not be permitted to preside over white conferences the same as white bishops over colored conferences. Whoever is qualified to be a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church is fully qualified to preside over a white conference the same as a colored conference, and if he is not, it was a flagrant mistake to have elected him. If colored bishops are to only preside over colored conferences then it would be a thousand times better for the white Methodist members to vote to exclude all colored persons from membership in that body and thereby forever settle the disturbing question. A house divided against itself will fall and as Lincoln said, "it is impossible for this countr to be half free and half slave, so will it be impossible for the Methodist Episcopal Church to prosper with a divided house on the black man. THANKSGIVING DAY On Thursday next, so says the text, the nation must pray, as its Thanksgiving day. To Him we'l raise our voice in praise, for life and health and plenty of wealth, which we've enjoyed while daily employed in digging the ground to make the world go round. But one thing do before you chew, remember the Light, too proud to fight, who kept out of war, that was raging afar, 'till a second term chair fell in his lair, but forced to fight got out the plight, to make the race, the White House to grace with a third presidential term, because he failed the world to hail that he might ride on the topmost side, that he could show, which way to go, to dodge the bumps and escape the lumps, thats found in the middle of the road. But Uncle Sam bucked at the presidential muck and "turned the rascals out." which tied his hands with Republican bands, so he can not sign, his treaty sublime until the wrongs of the European throngs are safely protected by men honestly elected. When next we pray for Thanksgiving day the G. O. P. our power will be and retrun to New Jersey the presidential prexy. WILSONISM IS DEFEATED Congress has adjourned without disposing of the Versailles peace pact, which means that, the treaty will not be disposed of until after the next presidential election, which, in all human probability, will be the paramount issue, in the coming campaign, and that may mean. Wilson will be a third term candidate, with the hope of saving the day for the treaty. Immediately after his return from Europe the American people, if the question had have been submitted to them, might have in overwhelming numbers voted to sustain President Wilson's contention, but we venture the assertion, if submitted now or at any subsequent date, every state in the North, East and VOL. IV., No. 23 West would vote three to one against it, and even the states in the South would go against it if the voters thereof had sense enough to vote anything but a Democratic ticket or something eminating from a Democratic diseased brain. Of course President Wilson will endeavor to have the short term of the present Congress, which convens in December and adjourns in March, to take up the treaty, but it will hardly do so, and so far as Unele Sam is concerned he will not be in the European finals. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL MEETING That was a well arranged memorial meeting held at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church last Sunday evening and if a similar meeting is held next year under the same auspices in all human probability there will be present three or four times more persons than were present last Sunday evening, but at that there were more present than could comfortably get into the house. The address of the Rev. Sidney Strong was particular refreshing because all present believed what he said was from the heart and not from the head. Its always a great pleasure to listen to persons talk when you have confidence in them. Few persons there are who can tell the story of Booker T. Washington with more earnestness than can Rev. Strong. The program was on the whole rather unique and was greatly enjoy... among the brief eulogizers of Dr. Washington was the editor here of, whose words were as follows: "A more wanton wasie of words could not be indulged in than to attempt to recount to you, the almost superhuman efforts of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, in acquiring an education, and, if not an education, a sufficiency of the goods the gods provide, mentally, to enable him to meet his fellowman without embarrassment to himself. That he built better than he had planned in his cross country tramp to a seat of information, in order to learn to read and write, the ambition of his childish life, may be seen in him, in later years not only being able to direct his efforts along the lines of least resistance, but being able to direct the efforts of his fellowman to the very best advantage. How young Booker laid the foundation, on which he erected his mounment of wisdom, is as familiar to the human family as is the story of life itself, and, as said above, needs no detailed recounting on this occasion. It is not so much of how he acquired his store house of information as to why he acquired it. As undeveloped as was his young mind, and so far as we know not even having received a parental inheritance, yet it was sufficiently strong to enable him to peer into the mystic future and see the necessity of fighting for knowledge, such as come from maps and charts and books and bibles. He therefore rose from the primitive A. B. C., step by step, grade by grade, degree by degree until he not only mastered the most profound books of scholars, but in turn himself became the maker of books that caused his fame to soar to the realms of the literary stars of not only the seventh, but the very greatest magnitude. What think you of one, who sets out to build a humble home, but finishes each part and parcel thereof so exquisitely that when the finishing touches have been put on the whole, that humble home has de- 9 veloped into a magnificent mansion? As in this so was it with him, to whom civilization is to night, paying homage to his memory, for not only hitting his mark, but for over-shadowing it, and instead of learning to simply read the laws of the land he became the writer of the laws, of his country, and from an educational standpoint, Booker T. Washingtonized our later day civilization. Who of you that would ask for a cobble and receive a diamond, but would not be pleased beyond measure, but not so with our own Dr. Washington, who bore his educational greatness with such becoming modesty that it was akin to meekness, and the only change in himself was from Booker the boy to Booker T. Washington, and that change was a compliment of an admiring teacher. If under such circumstances as tended the early life of Booker T. Washington an education, such as he possessed, could be acquired there is no excuse for any one under forty years of age to not possess at least the rudiments of a common school education. Our children's children and their children's children will turn to the golden pages of the life of Booker T. Washington for deeds of emulation and thus will his memory live on and on until our civilization, its glories end. But now it is time, to close this rhyme; and bid you adieu 'til a Washington a new; takes the place of the man, with the respect of the land, who is honored to night. for holding the light, while we learned to walk, to sing and to talk, of him who has gone, to the great beyond, where angels are found making holy the ground, for the blessed of earth with golden girths, made up of love as pure as the dove, from the ark that flew to the mountain blue. May his useful life keep us from strife; and at the end of the trail find an angel's vail, which will pass us in, to the home of Him that singeth the hymn, peace on earth. good will to men. A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY Henry Watterson, in the Saturday Evening Post Now and again an honest and a brave man who aims at better things appears in politics. In the event that fortune favors him and he attains high station, he finds himself surrounded and thwarted by men less upright, less able and less courageous, who, however capable of discovering right from wrong and willing to do their duty, yet wear the party collar, owe fealty to the party machine, are sometimes the very slaves of the party boss. In the larger towns we hear of the city hall ring; out in the counties, the court house ring. We rarely anywhere encounter clean, responsible administration and pure, disinterested, patriotic service. The taxpayers are robbed before their eyes daily and at noonday. The evil grows greater as we near the centers of population. But there is scarcely a village or a hamlet where graft does not grow like weeds, the voters as gullible and helpless as the infatuated victims of bunco tricks ingeniously contrived by professional crooks to separate the fool and his money. Is self-government a failure. We would not have the votaries of despotism, of the rule of the aristocrat, the saber rattler and the right divine of kings tell us so, albeit we are ready enough to concede the imperfections of universal suffrage, too often committing affairs of pith and moment, even of life and death, to the arbitrament of the mob, and at all times costing more in actual cash than royal establishments, crowns and scepters. The quadrennial period in American politics, set aside and dedicated to the election of presidents, multiplies and magnifies these evil features in an otherwise admirable system of government. That the whippersnappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes in the order of their nature. But the party leaders are not far behind them. Each side construes eery occurrence as assuring it certain victory. Take for example, the latest state election anywhere. It foretold nothing. It threw no light upon events. It leaves the outlook as hazy as before. Yet the managers of either part affect to be equally confident that it presages the triumph of their ticket in the next national election. The wonder is that so many of the voters will believe and be influenced by such trans-subterfuge and contradictory claims. Is there any remedy for all this? I much fear that there is not. All government is relative and illogical, impossible of perfection, It is as man is—good, bad and indifferent; which is but another way of saying we live in a world of sin, disease and death. We prefer Republicanism. But despotism would not be so demurrable with a wise, beneficent despot. The earth has just mussed itself up a bit by sacrificing about 7,000,000 people in the war. Now, about 1,000,000 able-bodied ignoramuses, led by a band of roving, raving derelicts, sicked on by a few rioting reds, are trying to destroy the few mourners left. Added to these glorius wordly achievements comes race trouble, prohibition, blue-sky laws, and a wave of disorder that passeth all understanding. Thus all our ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of chickens are knocked into a cocked hat. There is no place in the Bible that refers to or encourage any of these absurdities. False prophets, loose noodles and walking disturbers should have the skids put under them, exported and deported, and tattooed with the brand of Cain. My advice to all workers who wnt to live is to get rid of these K-9 fish—put something on our hook. This is the end of the line where I get off." EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Mr. Real Estate is still struggling against odds, but he seems to be a doomed man. Lady colored barbers have put in their appearance in Seattle and we think we will go up and get a rub off. In spite of his unannounced sickness President Wilson persist in either having his own way or their won't be any way. When the Rev. W. D. Carter made that political address the other night, are you prepared to say he was preaching politics. Another deadly pitfall opened to catch the rent hog has been dodged by the sly old rascal and he continues to gather in the kale and the beets. The address of the editor hereof at the Washington memorial meeting last Sunday evening is published because we just had to have something to fill up with. "The eyes of the world are on the state of Washington," runs a line in the daily press, which is but another instance of our constitutional self opiniation. One day the public is going to take a hand in the affairs of this country and when it does believe me, there will not be a grease spot left of capital and labor. The savings banks may be bulging out the sides from the large amounts in them and men may be buying luxuries galore, but home building is much on the bum. Much was said the other night at a Republican banquet about a triple political alliance which has dawned upon our minds, might mean the Cooper—Cardwell—Ander- Conflicting stories are flying thick and fast as to the origin of the Centralia trouble and until the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is forth coming we reserve our judgment. Its doubtless no violation of the immigration laws to bring Chinese into port providing they are not landed, as ruled Judge Rudkin, but when Chinese get that near to land sooner or later they are going to get landed. Unless the coal miners go back to work immediately if not sooner, the public will get accustomed to freezing and won't give a tinker's dam whether there is ever any more coal dug. A jury has found Col. Deavers not guilty of the murder of one, Holt, for a lack of sufficient evidence. Had, however, Deavers confessed to the killing of Holt and, produced the facts as but partially came out in his trial, we suspect, the verdict of the jury would have been no different than what it was. "Had I my way I would exterminate every person I found with an I. W. W. card" said a man more or less disgusted with that entire cult. If such a course was tolerated then it seems to us that the exterminators would be just as immical to good government as the perpetrators. May perhaps the next generation will raise the babies on reindeer milk, but we have our suspicious that mare babies will be raised on their mothers' milk than on either reindeer or dry deer's milk. If Mrs. Minnie Elaine Deaver is not bidding for a lot of cheap notoriety in writing her life story for a sensational daily dish rag, then we miss our guess. 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FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle --- THE PASSING THRONG Last Sunday evening I attended the Booker Washington memorial meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and it was one of the most unique affairs that I have ever witnessed. It was in the main a Washington meeting but touching tributes were paid to other great men of this country, who, like Dr. Washington, have crossed the great divide, but whose memories are still with us. Without knowing the originator of the program, I want to say, the honor is all his or hers as Seattle has never before had anthing just like it. As I sat through the rendition of the program I was more thoroughly convinced than ever before that to succeed in any undertaking you must give the people something they had never before had. I met Jim Shepperson one day this week and I gave him the once the twice and then the three times over and all because I read in a weekly paper some days ago an account, of a shooting affray, which occurred in Roslyn and Jim got slightly touched. I said to myself that Shep had had a good many close calls, but this was the closest one he had ever had since he has been out West. When there were about 4,000 white and colored miners in Roslyn, half and half he he always had his say, whether the one he was talking to was white or black and he always succeeded in getting away with the stuff. I am not quite sure that, what I write, is always, if ever, intelligently written, but I do love to write as well as I can and I never refuse to write a story, when I am earnestly requested to do so, but I turned an invitation down this week, and I did so because the story I was requested to write was for the daily press, and I felt morally certain that the story would be so badly emasculated that I would not recognize it as having come from myself. Time and time again have I with care and accuracy, prepared news stories concerning the doings of colored folks for the daily press and they were always made a nasty mess of, and the rather laughable part of it is, the person, who chopped the story to pieces was about as much fitted, from an educational stand point, to blue pencil it. as is a Comanche Indian to punctuate the Lord's prayer, and this is not saying very much for my educational qualifications. I have written similar news stories about the doings of white folks and be highly complimented by not only the publishers, but by the entire community. A friend of mine wrote me a letter one day this week and called my attention to my last weeks paper. He heartily approved of my Centralia Elaine article, but took exceptions to my articles under the caption of Right to Strike, which were taken from Harvey's Weekly. I myself did not fully agree with the article, but in the main I did. The right to strike should not be denied any man and the right to strike as long as he likes should likewise not be denied him, though civilization suffers therefrom, but the right for the striker to prevent another man from going to work, either by force or coertion should be denied any man union or other wise. I have never as yet witnessed a strike on the part of organized labor, but that coertion and often violence were not used to prevent other men from going to work. If the capital class gets more favors from the law than is rightfully due it, it is the fault of the laboring class for electing such malfactors to office. The laboring class is overwhelmingly in the majority in this country and it does not have to truckle to the capitalistic class. After listering to the rousing Republican addresses at that banquet last Monday evening. I felt like saying, and that too with all my heart and soul, "my party first, right or wrong, my party first," but there are quite a number of political skunks in my party, who are everlastingly and one day afterwards, looking for something, who, I propose, to give what Pat did the drum, when they show up in the primary election for party preference. I want it understood that I am against any man for high office who has nothing for a colored voter to do, though such high official has more than a thousand positions to distribute to the faithful. At the primary such a political direlect will meet my opposition, but if he succeeds inspite of my opposition and is the party choice I will be for him—my party first, right or wrong, my party first. The work of the Republican Club is after and not before the primary election. The primary election is a family affair pure and simple, and may the best man win. I know that T. H. Patterson has been charged with being a lawyer, but as yet, he has not been found guilty, and one is presumed to be innocent until found guilty by a due process of law. It seems to me that not only the jury, but even the trial judge in the Clay Allen case rebuked Patterson for persecuting the defendant. I have no feeling in this matter one way or the other, but as I see it, after a second acquittal of Clay Allen, Prosecutor Patterson injected a bit of personal spleen in that case with the hope of having public opinion look with favor upon him, that the mantel of the prosecuting attorney's office might fall on him, when his chief was no longer eligible, but when there is nothing under the hat the very idea is preposterous. I have my doubts if it ever pays, at least in the long run, to attempt to reach the goal of your ambition at the other fellow's expense. Perhaps it was not Patterson's idea, but if it were not it looks very much like it. I do not remember of ever having attended a more pleasant banquet than the one given by the King County Colored Republican Club in honor of the delegates that formed a similar state club. It was sumptiously served and the whole worked like greased lightning. The speaking program was par excellent and all of the speakers hit the bull's eye and after listening to the "big guns" including the master of ceremonies, if those present did not leave that banquet hall one thousand per cent Republican the fault did not lie in the speakers of the evening. However, if I had have had the arranging of that speaking program I would have had at least half of the speakers come from the visiting delegates. Of course, the colored man is a hard shell Republican alright, but on such occasions he likes to "git up an 'spress himself,'" and even if he does not, it looks better to have him do so. At banquets where white Republicans direct colored Republicans are never invited to speak and it does seem that they should be given an opportunity to say a word at their own blow outs. I met a court house deputy one day this week and the warm and welcome grasp of the hand that he extended to me made me feel that, after all, I am something on a stick. I admit it had been quite a little while since he had had the pleasure of greeting so dear an old friend as myself and I further realize that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." For two years or more he was absent from the court house, he being a soldier in the U. S. army fighting the Huns or at least getting ready to fight them. I remember on divers occasions, while he was in uniform I would meet him on the streets of Seattle and while he did not exactly walk right over me it was no fault of his. The first time I met him in uniform I rushed up to him to shake his hands, for we had been more or less friends when he was a court house deputy, and he gave me the icy stare and the marble heart and then nodded to me and passed on. I was careful thereafter to not let him see me looking at his lordly mein when he passed. But the other day he was his former self. Now in my opinion a man who will change like that on account of a bit of brief authority is nothing short of being either a damphool or the north end of a horse going south. If you feel that you want no mess with me feel that way all the time and never change. I hate a person that will belie his or her feelings in order to deceive some one that an advantage may be gained. I walked into Harmony Hall last Monday afternoon and witnessed the organizing of a Washington State Colored Republican Club by delegates from many of the counties of the state, and in the coursre of the proceedings, things got just as warm as they did in regular conventions, but after the rough edges had been knocked off, the delegates got down to business and perfected a strong organization. What to do with the women voters was for a minute a mooted question, but that too was settled and, to my mind, rightly settled by admitting the women to the Club on equal footing of the men. The convention's permanent organization resulted in electing Dr. David T. Cardwell, Seattle, president, J. T. Simmns (Yakima), first vice-president Miss Echols (Roslyn), second vice-president; C. R. Anderson (Seattle), secretary; C. A. Davis (Everett), assistant secretary; R. E. Crump, (Spokane), treasurer. P. D. Powell, J. A. G. Washington, (Tacoma), S. H. Jones, (Wenachee), J. E. Shepperson, (Roslyn), W. L. Yancey, (Yakima), T. H. Jefferson (Everett) members of the executive committee. Quite a few letters and words of condolence have come to me and my entire family on account of the death of my oldest daughter and I assure each and every one that all of them are highly appreciated and they brought to the family a world of consolation. No amount of consolation however can return the life to the one you love so dearly, but it does assure the bereaved that they do not always weep alone. For the most part time heals all sorrows and if it did not this would be a very sad old world. Editorial Wablings. PURELY PERSONAL George Anderson, he of old time Tacoma political fame, attended the convention of Washington State Colored Republican Clubs as a delegate from Spokane County. George, is an old time policical war horse and knows the game. While here Mr. Anderson was a guest of his son C. R. Anderson. Dr. C. B. Cooper, who acted as toastmaster at the banquet, is a pastmaster of such affairs, and he made a most excellent off handed address on assuming the gavel He was never at a loss for a word or a sentence and all he said were always well said. With him at the head of the county organization and Cardwell at the head of the state organization, a united front will be shown. J. A. G. Washington, was from Tacoma and in the thickest of the fray from the very outset. Mr. Washington has been rated as some spell binder and he has hopes of being one of the state speakers of the coming campaigns. Recently he was elected president of the Tacoma Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. S. E. Dyson, who attended the convention, hails from Pt. Angels where he is in business. He is well known on the Sound and met many old friends at the banquet. While he has lived in the most of the Sound Cities vet he thinks Pt. Angeles "the best of all." S. H. Jones of Wenachee was among those, who attended the convention held in this city and having formerly lived here and --- one of the partners in the grocery conducted under the firm name of Jones Bros., he met many to welcome him back to town again. He is now one of the prosperous citizens of Wenachee. J. E. Shepperson was on hand at the convention and took an active interest in the proceedings. Attending Republican conventions in Washington is nothing new to him, as he has attended the most of such conventions since 1890. In 1896 he was a delegate to the famous Republican convention held at Everett and witnessed the party split in twain, but he stood pat. Rev. W. D. Carter is some political spell binder and he made a big hit at the banquet. In speaking to the question of Why the Negroe Is A Republican he dug up more Republican party history than we had heard of in a long, long time. His speech was easily the speech of the evening and would have been quite worthy of a semi-national occasion. Sam H. Stone who served the banquet last Monday evening, did it with neatness and dispatch and if you feel that you did not get your money's worth just call up to Mr. Stone's catering establishment and he will make you a present of a bottle of aqua mons that will refresh your body and soul so completely that you will want to live always. Dr. David T. Cardwell, who was elected president of the newly formed Republican state organization has been a tireless worker in bringing about the party perfection among the colored voters as now exist and he merits the honor that has been conferred upon him. He is not only young and vigorous but is diplomatic and capable and his administration will doubtless be a mose brillint success. I. I. Walker, an old time political war horse came over from his ranch in Juanita precinct, to the banquet and was delighted with the meeting. In times past Mr. Walker has done much work for the success of the Republican party and while he is perfectly willing to see the work turned over to younger hands, yet he is still more or less interested in the game and heartily enjoys an old fashion Republican pow wow. R. E. Crump of Spokane was also a delegate to the Colored Convention and took advantage of the opportunity to see many friends living in this city. Mr. Crump attended the same school as did Mrs. S. R. Cayton and they renewed old acquaintance while he was in the city. He is one of the foremost colored men in Spokane and has a splendid business. Miss Maud Eckles of Roslyn was one of the accredited delegates from Kittitas County and served as secretary of the convention. Miss Eckles takes an active interest in affairs in and about Roslyn and being connected with a Seattle publication brings her much in contact with the general public. She is a promising young woman and it is the hope of the organization to have such as she cared for. C. A. Davis, who hailed from Everett, made quite a hit with the most of the delegates on account of the fight he had to make at home to convince the women voters that they would have the same rights on the floor of the convention as the men. It seems that some outside influence was responsible for the misunderstanding. Unfurnished at 317 Twenty-Second South there is a large and commodious room for rent, which when furnished will make a very comfortable winter home for either a man and his wife, two women or two men. See Mrs. Cayton. THE STRIKE AND THE LAW The government's case against the coal strikers rests upon no doubtful or narrow ground. The facts and circumstances which Attorney-General Palmer marshals in his public statement of the Government's position are but the background of the case, and no one of them is essential to its validity. The law invoked by him as the basis of the Goernment's action is the Food and Fuel Control act. This act, as the Attorney-General says, "made is unlawful for any concerted action, agreement, or arrangement to be made by two or more persons to limit the facilities of transportation and production, or to restrict the supply and distribution of fuel, or to aid or abet the doing of any act having this purpose or effect. Making a strike effective under the circumstances which I have described amounts to such concerted action or arrangement." Nor is there the slightest doubt that this act is still in full force. The date of its expiration is unambiguously stated in the act itself, which declares that it "shall cease to be in effect when the existing state of war between the United States and Germany shall have terminated, and the fact and date of such termination shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President." In the newspapers, while the strike was incubating, the greatest stress was laid on the charge that the miners were flagrantly repudiating a contract obligation. But neither in the President's letter nor in the Attorney-General's statement does this charge play a prominent part. On the contrary, while the point is mentianed in both cases, it is touched upon with conspicuous gentleness. Whether the obligation of that agreement, which was to be laid "during the continuation of the war," should be regarded as absolutely binding at this time is obviously an open question. Miners would have been perfectly justified in asserting their view that the obligation no longer holds good. The odium that rests upon them, in this regard, is not their assertion of the view, but their assumption of the right to compel its acceptance by force, instead of submitting the question to fair and impartial determination. But the Governmen's case in no wise depends on the right or wrong of this particular claim. The miners cannot pretend that they have the right to repeal an act of Congress; and under the Food and Fuel Control act a strike of the kind that is now being attempted would be absolutely illegal, even if no contract had been entered into in regard to wages and working conditions. A larger question as to the Government's power is raised by a speech made by ex-President Taft in Massachusetts. Every one who thinks seriously about what the strike really means must ask himself whether our protection against the disaster which it threatens rests solely on the accident that peace has not yet ben proclaimed. If the Treaty had been ratified last month and the proclamation of peace issued, the condition of the country would still be essentially what it is to-day, and the peril in which our industries and the general welfare would be placed by the strike would be no less than it is now. Mr. Taft placed the right of the Government to protect the public in such a contingency upon a basis which has nothing to do with the existence of a state of war. He said: In an ordinary strike incidental annoyance to the public, which is negligible, does not render the strike illegal. But when enormous combinations of workingmen deliberately enter upon a country-wide plan to take the country by the throat and compel the country to compel the employers in that particular field of industry to yield to the demands of the men, they are engaged in an unlawful conspiracy. The sacredness of thir individual right to labor on such terms as they choose and to leave their emploment when they will does not protect or justify them in such a conspiracy. That is the kind of conspiracy the bitumi- nous coal miners propose to begin on the first day of November. Congress has full power, in the interstate commerce law, to condemn such a conspiracy as an offense, if it has not already done so. The issue thus brought forward is one that may well engage the attention of our highest legislative and juristic authorities. CAYTON-NINE ETAO CAYTON-NINE ETAO And the public at large must begin to consider in real earnest the question of what the nation possesses to defend itself against what is in all essentials an act of war. We cannot afford to drift along in a state of uncertainity upon so vital an issue. The specific legislation proposed in the Cummins ailroad bill to prevent the possibility of our means of transportation being paralyzed by a strike is bitterly opposed by organized labor. Still more opposition will there be to legislation covering dangers of less definite scope, but no less menacing to the vital interests of the country. Yet if the future is to be safe, the power of the national Government to intervene for the nation's protection must in one way or another be made plain. And thre is no better time than the present for facing the issue. —The Review. FLASHLIGHTS Sometimes that wise look men wear is only skin deep, too. Nobody ever made a good job of trying to be somebody else. The time to do the right thing is when you could really profit by doing the wrong thing. We can stand almost everything except the foolish talk some men hand out to women. We've heard a lot about a fool's paradise. We don't know whether or not such a place exists, but if it does we'll bet mone it's crowded. One way to keep your credit good is never to have anything charged to your account which you can't afford to pay cash for. Furthermore, we don't care how high a thing is priced if we don't want to buy it. Our guess is that the old lady who lived in a shoe was unhappy because her house didn't look grand like a boot. Personally we don't claim to be a deep thinker, but the reason we are dissatisfied with out working conditions is because we have to work. One of the greatest things in this world is how much manly protection a girl thinks she needs and how well a widow gets along without it. And listen. Algernon—it takes a lot of money to pay for the gasoline bought by a wife who hasn't anything to do but burn it. As a general thing, a married man's idea seems to be that house furniture is something for him to scatter cigar ashes on in the day time and bump against at night. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State OF WASHINGTON. ELBERTIE FLORENCE PEAK, Plaintiff, vs. EMET STEDMAN PEAK, Defendant. No. 139203. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO: Emmet Stedman Peak, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit; within sixty days after the 8th day of November, 1919, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff, at his office below stated and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of this action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony now and heretofore existing between the plaintiff and the defendant in this action and for an absolute decree of divorce. Office & P. O. 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